The Delta independent., 1887-01-11
COLORADO CONDENSED.

works next spring.
The Golden smelter gives employ
ment to sixty-fve men.
The rainfall in this State last year
was little over 10 inches.
Macy B. Kams has been appointed
postmaster at Deuel., Weld county.
The Franceville coal mines were
damaged by fire the other day to the extent
of tl5, 900.
| The Government land office at Lamar
was opened on the Sd. A rushing business
is being done.
A mountain lion was killed near Pal
mer Lake last week which measured nine
feet in length.
Professor Martin, Of Denver, has
been appointed veterinary surgeon at the
Agricultural College.
A report comes from Aspen that the
case Of the Harrisburg mine against the
Bob IngersOll has been compromised.
The bank clearings at Denver last
week were 81, 800 ,615, gain of % per cent
over those of the corresponding week in last
year.
Field and Farm, of Denver, donned a
new dress the first of the year. Ithas al
ways been handsome paper but is now
prettier than ever.
There are 645 school districts in the
State and 63l school houses valued at &,
$500. There was expended for teachers
wages last year s497 $3.50.
The Rocky Mountain Celt is rapidly
forging to the front as an influential family
newspaper. Under the energetic manage
ment of Mr.. McSheehy It can not but sue
coed.
According to the Rocky Mountain
News there were 100 buildings commenced
In Denver last year at an estimated cost of
s2,o0,66i. This is greater sum than has
been spent In any year since lss,.
One Of the Arapahoe members of the
Legislature has the names of between three
and four hundred boys on file who want to
serve their country by acting as pages.
Professor Tilden. of the State School
Of Mines, spent his recent vacation In Ari-
roma where he was robbed of everything he
had with him excepting the clothes he had
on.
Boulder is advertised by 10000
| copies of an illustrated pamphlet, entitled.
Boulder and Its Surroundings" hand
somely printed at the Daily Herald Office,
and paid for and distributed by public-spirit-
ed citizens.
There are seven great markets in Colo
| rAdo for beef cattle. Following are the places
together with the number OF beeves slaugh-
| tered at each during the year 1856: Denver,
ls6o4; Leadville, 5.644: Pueblo, a,6sa; As
pen and vicinity, a,sl5: Durango and vicin-
hy. s,o9i; San Luis Valley, l.o44; Grand
Junction, 4sa.
The annual meeting of the State For
estry Association will be held in Denver,
January l4th and 18th, 1887. at the Chamber
Of Commerce, commencing at o:s0 n. III ON
the l4th. All interested In the subject of
the preservation of the woodlands of the
State are earnestly invited TO attend and
participate.
Amos +. Nickcns. a colorcd barber.
was found murdered In his sho:, gu Seven
teenth street, Denver, cn the morning of
the ID. A man who worked for him, named
Green, has been arrested accused Of the
murder. A woman is mixed up in the case
and all parties were pretty full OF bug juice
at the time of the tragedy.
The Denver Republican has been in
tcrviewing the members Of the Legislature
regarding their choice for President, and
finds that of ~ Republican members III are
for Blaine. for Evarts or Allison, for
Edmunds and have no choice. OF the :s
Democratic members 81 are for Gov. Hill.
for Cleveland, 1 for Mcdonald and for
Henry George.
One farmer in jefferson county who
had a pond or small lake covering less than
fifty cares of ground, realized this last sea-
son upwards OF two thousand dollars for
carp fish taken from the same. lie expects
with lair success, to gather twice the amount
Of the fnny beauties next season. Wheat
and corn growing for profit is tame wheR
compared TO fish culture.
A Hugo correspondent of the Ebert
Tribune says he recently came across a
bunch Of about 200 cattle which were being
herdcd by band of thirty wolves Every
little while they would cut out calf, throw
him, tear out his cntrails, drink its blood,
and then hastily surround the then fleeing
cattle and repeat the performance. He
counted eleven calves which had been
treated In this way besides seven larger
one which had been han-strung.
Avery narrow escape from the cold
embrace Of an avalanche took place In Red
Mountain last week. A miner, whose
name we did not learn, was going from the
tennessee mine to the Alexandria and
while following the trail over dangerous
place slide came down which caught the
tai! end Of his overcoat. The slide APP
peared to partly stop at this place and
the miner found his overcoat wedged In 30
tight that he could not move. He was not
long, however, In slipping out of the coat
and reaching tho Alexandria mine, where
he was taken care of by Capt Stanley.-San
Juan.
The output Of the Canon City Coal
Company at their Canon City, Williams
burg and Rockvale collieries aggregated for
the month Of December 5000 l-5 tons Of
coal. This was loaded intoi 900 broad gauge